Official Anoncoin chat thread (including history)

[lunokhod2]

Who are these 95% then in your humilde opinion? Ghosts miners?

Typical AnonCoin community behavior instead on entering a url or two he enter a picture and write something "funny"..

Hi RedZeppelin,

That message is from a new account with only 3 posts. Since you are new here, I would suggest that you simply ignore new users; over the past month we have been experiencing problems with trolls and sock puppets. If you didn't get the response you were looking for, it is probably because many of us now just assume that newcomers to this thread are here only for the purpose of causing problems.

The best place to get information is the anoncoin IRC channel. The devs respond within 24h (most of the time they are on line), and there is always someone there who is willing to help.

Also, as you have probably realized, the anoncoin community is very small. If you find the answers to your questions, you could help out by updating the wiki. Just PM me and I'll set you up with an account. Two pages you might want to work on are

Mining pools, and How to mine Anoncoin.

As I am not a big miner, these pages are in need of help!

Cheers,

[newb4now]

Anoncoin Mining

Guys do you know good cloud mining services on which I can get some mining power on the Anoncoin network?
Remember this is scrypt.

Mintsy will offer this soon

https://mintsy.co

dont fall for cloud mining services, they are all scam and ripoff. no wonder craptsy now offer such a service too... its getting pathetic.

Yesterday , we had cryptsy developer in this forum. Please communicate with him to solve the cryptsy issue.

I agree fixing this issue with anc should be a priority. Nothing else needs to be done on cryptsys end. The issue seems to be getting sidelined.... Ill continue to merge inputs to reduce tx sizes until they get it resolved

Why is it taking so long to get a response on this? I keep seeing the issue ignored

[RedZeppelin]

Mining pools, and How to mine Anoncoin.

I know about that list if you look at my previous posts im asking where the other 95-96% of the hashrate is because you only find a few % on
those pools on that list combined.
No one seems to know or want to provide an answer to that question..
What other pools are there out there, is AnonCoin 95%:ed by chinese datacenters or!?

[newb4now]

Mining pools, and How to mine Anoncoin.

I know about that list if you look at my previous posts im asking where the other 95-96% of the hashrate is because you only find a few % on
those pools on that list combined.
No one seems to know or want to provide an answer to that question..
What other pools are there out there, is AnonCoin 95%:ed by chinese datacenters or!?

I am assuming they are private pools or a large private mining group.

If they were public pools, I am sure they would want to advertise in this thread.

It is scary that one group controls that much of the mining capacity.

It is frustrating that this question and the stuck transaction (cryptsy) issue continues to be ignored. Perhaps all focus is on Zerocoin right now and the devs are not overly concerned with either of these issues

[matthewh3]

Well the most anonymous way to acquire an anonymous cryptocurrency would be solo mining via Tor.  I'd imagine the network has quite a few large solo-miners.  Maybe someone could start watching the block explorer for the IP address associated with new blocks.  Then seeing if the IP addresses correspond with Tor public gateways.  Or if the IP addresses associated with new blocks can be linked to anywhere else.  The dev's did say they were planning on soon changing from Scrypt to a three of five auxPoW chains myriad.  While meeh did say he'd have an important announcement for us soon.

[lunokhod2]

Mining pools, and How to mine Anoncoin.

I know about that list if you look at my previous posts im asking where the other 95-96% of the hashrate is because you only find a few % on
those pools on that list combined.
No one seems to know or want to provide an answer to that question..
What other pools are there out there, is AnonCoin 95%:ed by chinese datacenters or!?

There have been problems recently with the hash rate going up and down by large factors when multipools join and leave. This is supposed to be fixed in an upcoming patch to the KGW algorithm that sets the difficulty. In fact, given that we are burning through 10 second blocks again, the current hash rate is likely from a multipool. About a month ago the hash rate was only a few GH/s.

If you find out the answer, please let us know. If this is a result of solo miners with scrypt asics, I don't know how you will ever find out who is responsible.

[K1773R]

Well the most anonymous way to acquire an anonymous cryptocurrency would be solo mining via Tor.  I'd imagine the network has quite a few large solo-miners.  Maybe someone could start watching the block explorer for the IP address associated with new blocks.  Then seeing if the IP addresses correspond with Tor public gateways.  Or if the IP addresses associated with new blocks can be linked to anywhere else.  The dev's did say they were planning on soon changing from Scrypt to a three of five auxPoW chains myriad.  While meeh did say he'd have an important announcement for us soon.

s/TOR/I2P/

[RedZeppelin]

I am assuming they are private pools or a large private mining group.

If they were public pools, I am sure they would want to advertise in this thread.

It is scary that one group controls that much of the mining capacity.

It is frustrating that this question and the stuck transaction (cryptsy) issue continues to be ignored. Perhaps all focus is on Zerocoin right now and the devs are not overly concerned with either of these issues

Hey its just 95%+ of hashrate it wont damage AnonCoin in the long run will it
I did PM Meeh, he had no answer and he also refused to answer the simple question "where do you mine yourself at the moment"..

Well the most anonymous way to acquire an anonymous cryptocurrency would be solo mining via Tor.  I'd imagine the network has quite a few large solo-miners.  Maybe someone could start watching the block explorer for the IP address associated with new blocks.  Then seeing if the IP addresses correspond with Tor public gateways.  Or if the IP addresses associated with new blocks can be linked to anywhere else.  The dev's did say they were planning on soon changing from Scrypt to a three of five auxPoW chains myriad.  While meeh did say he'd have an important announcement for us soon.

Do anyone know 1 TOR pool!?

[RedZeppelin]

There have been problems recently with the hash rate going up and down by large factors when multipools join and leave. This is supposed to be fixed in an upcoming patch to the KGW algorithm that sets the difficulty. In fact, given that we are burning through 10 second blocks again, the current hash rate is likely from a multipool. About a month ago the hash rate was only a few GH/s.

If you find out the answer, please let us know. If this is a result of solo miners with scrypt asics, I don't know how you will ever find out who is responsible.

Stop playing that Multipool card, look at the stats retard, AnonCoin is UNDER Litecoin at the moment on Coinwarz chart (nr:21) but the hashrate is still +18GH/s.
No multipools target a coin that is under LiteCoin cause then no one would use a Multipool, think ffs you mindless drone!

[stealth923]

Been reading through this thread and interested in Anoncoin, apologies if it has been answered before.

I have seen that Zerocoin has an issue with its proof/transaction sizes which will cause significant blockchain bloat. This would cause scalability/adoption issues in the future.

Has Anoncoin done anything to rectify this issue?

[drAGon925]

Been reading through this thread and interested in Anoncoin, apologies if it has been answered before.

I have seen that Zerocoin has an issue with its proof/transaction sizes which will cause significant blockchain bloat. This would cause scalability/adoption issues in the future.

Has Anoncoin done anything to rectify this issue?

Hi, sry if I'm wrong, but I think this is answer for your question.

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=227287.msg8867500#msg8867500

[lunokhod2]

Been reading through this thread and interested in Anoncoin, apologies if it has been answered before.

I have seen that Zerocoin has an issue with its proof/transaction sizes which will cause significant blockchain bloat. This would cause scalability/adoption issues in the future.

Has Anoncoin done anything to rectify this issue?

Yes. This has been rectified, there will be no bloat to the blockchain. The proofs are stored off the blockchain in a separate database that will be deleted periodically. You can read more about this here

Zerocoin

[Simcom]

There have been problems recently with the hash rate going up and down by large factors when multipools join and leave. This is supposed to be fixed in an upcoming patch to the KGW algorithm that sets the difficulty. In fact, given that we are burning through 10 second blocks again, the current hash rate is likely from a multipool. About a month ago the hash rate was only a few GH/s.

If you find out the answer, please let us know. If this is a result of solo miners with scrypt asics, I don't know how you will ever find out who is responsible.

Stop playing that Multipool card, look at the stats retard, AnonCoin is UNDER Litecoin at the moment on Coinwarz chart (nr:21) but the hashrate is still +18GH/s.
No multipools target a coin that is under LiteCoin cause then no one would use a Multipool, think ffs you mindless drone!

I answered your question earlier but you must not have tried to put in the effort to understand.  Instead you choose to mock and ridicule our community for not giving you an answer. Clearly the answer you are seeking is MULTIPOOLS, as I stated earlier!  

Notice anything interesting with these blocks?
                                                                                DIFFICULTY
251908   2014-10-07 13:33:55   1   5 ANC                   586.036
251907   2014-10-07 13:33:30   1   5 ANC                   585.19
251906   2014-10-07 13:32:52   1   5 ANC                   580.332
251905   2014-10-07 13:32:16   13 128.3448 ANC      767.213
251904   2014-10-07 10:25:58   1   5 ANC                  761.069
251903   2014-10-07 10:25:49   1   5 ANC                   696.092
251902   2014-10-07 10:25:46   1   5 ANC                   694.871
251901   2014-10-07 10:25:18   1   5 ANC                   693.458

It took 3 HOURS for the anoncoin miners to mine a block of difficulty 767.  The next minute it took SECONDS to mine blocks of difficulty 580, 585, etc etc. BECAUSE MULTIPOOLS HAVE SWITCHED ONTO THE COIN.

This is not rocket science.

[JMcGrath]

I'm sorry if this is a really noob question, I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere else and I am brand new to ANC...

I just purchased quite a lot of ANC tonight on CEX as a future investment and immediately withdrew them to a different wallet. The wallet did receive a confirmation that the transaction was received, but it has been something like 5 or 6 hours without a single confirmation. I tried to check the blockchain for my transaction / address and it is not found, it also looks like there has not been a block found since sometime yesterday - it has been stuck at block 252049 for a long time now...

Is this normal to have such long gaps? Is something now working correctly with either the network, blockchain, my transaction, wallet, transaction, etc?

How long do most blocks usually take, this seems a bit ridiculous that my transaction has been stuck like this for so long!? Although looking at the blockchain, it appears that most blocks are usually 1-5 minutes (not hours or days!)

If someone could help me out I'd really appreciate it!

[Chooseusername]

I'm running v0.8.5.6-g87bdacc-beta anoncoin-qt and blockchain is stuck at 252049. 7 active connections, synchronizing with network already about a hour or more.

[gunzeon]

I'm sorry if this is a really noob question, I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere else and I am brand new to ANC...
......

I can provide a layman's explanation; ANC is being mined by high capacity multipools in a hit and run fashion; they mine a few blocks with a lot of capacity then once the difficulty has adapted they move on to another coin, leaving a relative few miners to solve a high difficulty block.

Patience is required until this block is solved and the difficulty adapts again. ie: http://ancblockchain.com/chain/Anoncoin

[Apraksin]

One week left until testnet! The future looks bright for ANC 

[Chooseusername]

One week left until testnet! The future looks bright for ANC  

It is bright indeed but I still can't synchronize my wallet. I restarted the wallet and it shows "No block source available" now. What's wrong with this 252049 block?

[Apraksin]

One week left until testnet! The future looks bright for ANC  

It is bright indeed but I still can't synchronize my wallet. I restarted the wallet and it shows "No block source available" now. What's wrong with this 252049 block?

Sorry, I'm not a techy person so I really can't answer that with any degree of certainty, but I would believe Gunzeons answer above my comment could perhaps shed some light on the problem?

[Chooseusername]

Sorry, I'm not a techy person so I really can't answer that with any degree of certainty, but I would believe Gunzeons answer above my comment could perhaps shed some light on the problem?

Now I see. There wasn't any block mined since yesterday. Didn't I said already that ANC needs PoW/PoS instead of PoW to stop this crap happening?   Especially if we want it to be able to work on I2P smoothly.